Show the natural i of olvir elti lit the natural bridge of 0 virginia is abed iu in rockbridge county mid and spans the abe mountain chasm it ii which flows tile the little stream called cedar creek the bed of which is more than feet cc t below tile the surface of tbt th plain the middle of the alie arch if is 43 feet la perpendicular thickness which to zo SO at its jun juncture cure with the fact abut indents it is GO CO feet wide and its span is ii almost 00 feet across A clohs the top is in a public road lor for many years the of wash ington cut in ili the rock forming one of the tha abutments i hen tile the father of ilis his country was wa it lad stood blood high above those thone of f nil all U otherie ot ben heril but in 1818 1918 a student of W waihing ton college virginia piper by ninie nan I 1 climb d from the foot to tile the tot top tit of lie lock and placed his namo name abhat or of washington |